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Patented Mar. 16, 1886.

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oHAUNoEY L. oLMSTEAD, or WEST BEooKEiELD, MASSACHUSETTS, AND ALBERT D. NASoN, on NEw YORK, N. Y.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 338,184, dated March 16,1886,

Application tiled December 26, 1385. Serial No. 186,668. (No model.)

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GHAUNCEY L. OLM- sTEAD, of XVest Brookfield, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, and

ALBERT D. NASON, of the city and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Corsets, of which the following is a specilication.

Corsets have heretofore been made with the Y 1o bottom edge sloped upwardly to pass over the hips. This corset is known as a cut-away hip-corset, and in this style of corset there have been vertical sections corded, extending from the top to the bottom of the corset be- ;5 neath the arm and over the hip, and corded bands extending at the front and back of these vertical sections and forming the lower edge of the corset at these places; and elastic gores have been made use of in various parts of the zo corset.

Our invention is made with reference to obtaining a small amount of elasticity above the waist and below the arm,to allow freedom for the upper part of the body,in connection with a horizontally-corded nonelastic section below the elastic gore and extending from the waist portion to the hip, the object of this being to allow the corset above the hip to couforni to the shape of the person without the 3o edge of the corset cutting into the {iesh and without the risk of the corset rolling up or folding over at the edge immediately above the hip.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of the corset. Fig. 2 is a section at the line :t x. Fig. 3 is a section at the line y y; and Fig. 4 is a section at the line z z of Fig. l.

Thesteels and clasping devices at B and the eyelets at 'A are of ordinary character, and

4o the sections C and D and bosom-gores E are similar to those heretofore used, and there are sections F and G at the back part of the corset that are corded vertically, as usual.

The section H is corded vertically, and it extends from the top to the bottom edges of the corset, and the same is united at one edge to the sectionD and to one end of the curvedband K,that is corded longitudinally and forms the lower portion of the corset at the front of the abdomen. 5o

The section I is corded vertically, and it extends from the top to the bottom edges of the corset, and at one edge it is united to the section G and to the end of the corded band L, that forms the lower edge of the corset at the back of the hip.

Between the sections H and I there is an elastic gore, M, that extends above the waist and beneath the arm, and this elastic gore is attached at its edges to said sections H and I, 6o respectively, and between these sections H and I, and below the elastic gore M, is a gore or section, O, which is non-elastic and corded horizontally, and the same is firmly attached tothe edges ot' the sections H and I, and said 65 corded section O forms part of the waist ot the corset, so that said waist is not elastic; and below the waist the horizontal cording of the gore or section O allows such section to conform to the shape of the person by spring- 7o ing or bending outwardly between the waist and the upper part of the hip. This horizontally-corded section would roll up and form a fold at the lower edge above the hip were it not for the sections H and I,at opposite edges 75 of the same, which sections H and I, being corded vertically,hold down the lower edge of the section O sufiiciently to cause the corset to retain the proper shape.

This corset is especially adapted to persons So that walk or stand on their feetA considerably, because it allows freedom of motion at the hips, and at the same time it supports the abdomen and the waist, and the upper part of the body is comparatively free in its motions, 8 5 because the elastic gore M yields to any movement of the muscles of the chest and arms, and the motions of the upper part of the body do not drive the cut-away hip-corset down upon the hips as is the case in corsets that 9o have not the elastic gores under the arm portions.

VVe claim as our inventionm In a corset having its lower edge cut away to pass up over the hips, the combination,with 9 5 the front and back sections and the bands K L, of the'veitical corded sections H I, eXvtend- Signedby us this 23d day of December, A. ing from the top to the bottom of the 'corset D. 1885. above the hips tbe elastic @fore M between Y the sections H nd I and benath the a1m,a11d lTJgOLISTEAD' 5 the non-elastic section O,between the sections 1 L L H and Land extending from the bottom edge Witnesses: of the corset above the waist to the elastic 1 GEO. T. PINCKNEY, gore M, substantially as specified. VILLIAM G. MoTT. 

